-.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.77 2010/08/20 01:02:07 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: mandoc.1,v 1.84 2011/01/04 23:32:21 kristaps Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
.\"
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 20 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 4 2011 $
.Dt MANDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
arguments, which correspond to output modes:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl T Ns Cm ascii
-Produce 7-bit ASCII output, backspace-encoded for bold and underline
-styles.
+Produce 7-bit ASCII output.
This is the default.
See
.Sx ASCII Output .
.It Fl T Ns Cm html
-Produce strict HTML-4.01 output, with a sane default style.
+Produce strict CSS1/HTML-4.01 output.
See
.Sx HTML Output .
.It Fl T Ns Cm lint
.It Fl T Ns Cm tree
Produce an indented parse tree.
.It Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
-Produce strict XHTML-1.0 output, with a sane default style.
+Produce strict CSS1/XHTML-1.0 output.
See
.Sx XHTML Output .
.El
.Fl T Ns Cm html
conforms to HTML-4.01 strict.
.Pp
-Font styles and page structure are applied using CSS2.
-By default, no font style is applied to any text,
-although CSS2 is hard-coded to format
-the basic structure of output.
-.Pp
The
.Pa example.style.css
-file documents the range of styles applied to output and, if used, will
-cause rendered documents to appear as they do in
-.Fl T Ns Cm ascii .
+file documents style-sheet classes available for customising output.
+If a style-sheet is not specified with
+.Fl O Ns Ar style ,
+.Fl T Ns Cm html
+defaults to simple output readable in any graphical or text-based web
+browser.
.Pp
Special characters are rendered in decimal-encoded UTF-8.
.Pp
.Sh EXAMPLES
To page manuals to the terminal:
.Pp
-.D1 $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
-.D1 $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
+.Dl $ mandoc \-Wall,stop mandoc.1 2\*(Gt&1 | less
+.Dl $ mandoc mandoc.1 mdoc.3 mdoc.7 | less
.Pp
To produce HTML manuals with
.Ar style.css
as the style-sheet:
.Pp
-.D1 $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
+.Dl $ mandoc \-Thtml -Ostyle=style.css mdoc.7 \*(Gt mdoc.7.html
.Pp
To check over a large set of manuals:
.Pp
.Pp
To produce a series of PostScript manuals for A4 paper:
.Pp
-.D1 $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
+.Dl $ mandoc \-Tps \-Opaper=a4 mdoc.7 man.7 \*(Gt manuals.ps
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
Standard error messages reporting parsing errors are prefixed by
.Pp
.Nm
utility may also print messages related to invalid command line arguments
or operating system errors, for example when memory is exhausted or
-input files cannot be read. Such messages do not carry the prefix
-described above.
+input files cannot be read.
+Such messages do not carry the prefix described above.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
This section summarises
.Nm
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr man 7 ,
.Xr mandoc_char 7 ,
-.Xr mdoc 7
+.Xr mdoc 7 ,
+.Xr roff 7 ,
+.Xr tbl 7
.Sh AUTHORS
The
.Nm
utility was written by
.An Kristaps Dzonsons Aq kristaps@bsd.lv .
.Sh CAVEATS
-The
-.Fl T Ns Cm html
-and
-.Fl T Ns Cm xhtml
-CSS2 styling used for
-.Fl m Ns Cm doc
-input lists does not render properly in older browsers, such as Internet
-Explorer 6 and earlier.
-.Pp
In
.Fl T Ns Cm html
and
and cause them to forget the formatting of the prior next-line scope.
.Pp
The
-.Sq i
-macro in
-.Fl m Ns Cm an
-should italicise all subsequent text if a line argument is not provided.
-This behaviour is not implemented.
-The
.Sq \(aq
control character is an alias for the standard macro control character
and does not emit a line-break as stipulated in GNU troff.